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25. April 2017 - Electronic Intifada, Ali Abunimah:

Omar Barghouti "BDS fordert Israel und seine Komplizen heraus"

Am Sonntag erhielt Omar Barghouti den Gandhi Peace Award in einer Feier an der Yale Universität in New Haven, Connecticut, USA
Er wurde für seine Rolle als Verteidiger der Menschenrechte und Mitbegründer der BDS-Bewegung für Boykott, Desinvestitionen und Sanktionen für Freiheit, Gerechtigkeit und Gleichheit ausgezeichnet.
Barghouti wurde von der Vorsitzenden der Organisation Jewish Voice for Peace, Rebecca Vilkomerson vorgestellt, die seine Rolle hervorhob ihre eigene Organisation davon zu überzeugen, dem BDS-Aufruf zuzustimmen.
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19. April 2017 - Maxwell School of Syracuse University:

PARCC Conversations in Conflict Studies. 
"U.S. Foreign Policy in the Age of Trump"
Guest Speaker: Phyllis Bennis, Director, New Internationalism Project at the Institute for Policy Studies, Washington DC.
Bennis' journalism and activism employ a rigorous left perspective and focus on ending the U.S. wars in Iraq, Syria, Afghanistan, Yemen and beyond. She is the author of numerous books, including
"Understanding ISIS & the New Global War on Terror: A Primer",
"Before & After: US Foreign Policy and the War on Terror", and
"Challenging Empire: How People, Governments and the UN Defy U.S. Power."
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6. April 2017 - The Libertarian Institute, Scott Horton:

Philip Giraldi says IC-Military Doubt Assad Gas Narrative

Philip Giraldi, former CIA officer and Director of the Council for the National Interest, says that "military and intelligence personnel," "intimately familiar" with the intelligence, say that the narrative that Assad or Russia did it is a "sham," instead endorsing the Russian narrative that Assad’s forces had bombed a storage facility. Giraldi’s intelligence sources are "astonished" about the government and media narrative and are considering going public out of concern over the danger of worse war there. Giraldi also observes that the Assad regime had no motive to do such a thing at this time.
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